Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Basic Research

Microbiology of the Built Environment

Jessica Green at TED: Are We Filtering the Wrong Microbes?

Microbiologist, TED Fellow, and Director of the Sloan-funded Biology and the Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon, Jessica Green talks about "good" and "bad" microbes in the indoor environment, and how our attempts to filter out "bad" air might be doing more harm than good.